Robin for trades

Your tools build the work.
Robin builds the marketing.

AI social media built for UK electricians, plumbers, builders and joiners. Send your finished-job photos to WhatsApp. Robin writes the week's posts in your voice. You approve them on Monday morning, one tap per post.

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Built for UK trades across electrical, plumbing, gas, joinery and groundworks.

Monday, 9 am

Morning, Aiden

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This week's posts
4 ready to approve

Mon · IG + FB · GBP

Penarth bungalow rewire wrapped up Friday. New consumer unit, RCBO on every circuit...

Wed · IG + FB

Quick one for the landlords. If your EICR is older than five years, the regs say...

Thu · IG only

Lighting circuit in a Cardiff bay window. Brass pendants, oak ceiling rose...

Fri · GBP only

August callout slots. We've got three weekday mornings open if anyone needs a...

The trades marketing problem

Tradespeople hate posting. There are good reasons for that.

You're not on your phone. You're under a floor, up a ladder, or stripping a board. The marketing industry hands you advice written for office workers, then wonders why you don't follow it. Robin starts from how the work actually happens.

01

You finish a job. You forget to post.

A finished consumer unit. A new boiler. A repointed wall. By the time you've cleaned up, the van is loaded and you're driving to the next call. The photo never goes anywhere.

02

You don't know what to write.

"New consumer unit installed today" sounds like every other electrician on the platform. The caption that wins is the one that explains the job in plain English to homeowners who don't know what an RCBO is, and Robin writes that.

03

The job is local. The work is too.

Your customers come from a 20-mile radius. National AI tools don't know the difference between a Penarth bungalow and a Penrith barn conversion. Robin's trades layer does, and it writes for the place as well as the trade.

How Robin works for trades

Your photos do the heavy lifting. Robin handles the rest.

AI cannot generate a believable photo of your finished job. It can shape what you already have into posts that earn revenue. Robin pulls your photos from three places, writes them up in the voice you set at signup, and produces a week of social every Sunday night.

Three places your photos come from

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    WhatsApp upload. The single most important habit. You finish the job, send the photo to Robin on WhatsApp, and it lands in your photo pool for next week's posts.
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    Your website. Point Robin at your site and it pulls the gallery and case-study photos already on there into your pool in one go.
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    Web upload. Drag a folder of photos from your laptop. Useful if you have years of finished jobs sitting on a hard drive.
What Robin understands about trades

The trades content layer

Robin has a layer of trade-specific knowledge sitting above your Brand Kit. It includes:

  • Reg-aware language. Knows when to mention BS 7671, when to say "to the latest regulations," and when to keep it plain.
  • No efficacy claims. Won't promise to "save you money" or "cut your bills in half" without evidence. Keeps you out of trouble with the ASA.
  • Seasonal awareness. Knows heating and boiler work climbs from September, that storm damage drives roofing through the winter, that bathrooms and kitchens get booked in the new year, and that outdoor work runs from spring.
  • Trade dialect. Prefers "consumer unit" to "breaker box", "rewire" to "rewiring services", and "we" to "our team of certified professionals".
  • Local hook. Mentions the area, the type of property and the kind of job, so the posts read like a neighbour down the road.
A week with Robin

What a typical week looks like for Sparks Electrical

Four posts across the week. Mixed channels. Mixed post types. Every one built from a real job Aiden did, paired with a caption that sounds like Aiden wrote it himself.

Mon · Showcase

"Penarth bungalow rewire. New consumer unit, RCBO on every circuit, fresh earthing. Forty-two-year-old wiring out the door."

IG + FB + GBP
Tue · Personality

"Steve's van turned eight today. 162,000 miles, still goes. Lasted longer than half my apprentices."

IG + FB
Wed · Education

"Landlord EICR explained in plain English. What gets tested, what fails, what we can usually fix on the day."

IG + FB
Fri · Promotion

"August callout slots. Three weekday mornings open this side of the bank holiday if anyone needs a fault traced or a small job done."

GBP only

Why this mix works. Every post is written about a photo you sent. One shows the finished job, one shows the people behind it, one teaches something, and one asks for the work. Showcase is the trust-builder, education is the search-finder, personality is the relationship-builder, and promotion converts. Robin gives each post in the week a different one of your content pillars, so no week reads as a sales push.

Your Brand Kit

You set the voice. Robin writes to it every week.

When you sign up, Robin asks you how you talk, who your customers are and what you want to be known for. That builds your Brand Kit, which is the source of truth for every caption Robin ever writes.

Every post you skip counts as feedback. Three skips in a row and the next batch goes to a stronger model with instructions to change its approach. You can rebuild the Brand Kit from the dashboard whenever the business moves on.

The kit holds your voice in three words, how you sound in a sentence, the sign-off you use, your content pillars and a list of the words and claims Robin never uses for you. Alongside it sit your trade, your town, your typical customer and whatever you've told Robin is on at the moment. Every caption is written from that.

Brand Kit

Sparks Electrical · Cardiff

Healthy

Voice

Practical, dry humour, no jargon unless explained. Prefers "we" to "the company". Never overpromises.

Vertical layer

Trades · Electrical (domestic + light commercial). Part P, NICEIC. Avoids efficacy claims.

Photo pool

+38

Service area

Cardiff, Penarth, Barry, Caerphilly, Newport. 30 miles.

Pricing

Two ways to use Robin.

Self-serve if you want to drive it yourself. Managed if you want it run for you. Both built for trades from day one.

Self-serve

Solo

£79/mo

For one-van outfits and owner-operators doing the marketing themselves.

  • Four posts a week across IG, FB and GBP
  • Brand Kit, a weekly draft, and the approval link on WhatsApp
  • Trades content layer included
  • 7-day free trial, no card required
Start Solo trial →

Managed

Managed

£999/mo
6-month

For multi-van firms and established trades. A real strategist runs it. You stay on the tools.

  • Dedicated UK-based strategist
  • Quarterly job-site photoshoot included
  • Your posting volume agreed on the discovery call
  • Monthly call, ongoing reporting, full content calendar ownership
  • £500 onboarding sprint, credited to month 1
Book a Managed call →

Two more tiers sit above Managed, Managed + Ads and Full Stack. See the full range →

Trades-specific questions

What tradespeople ask before signing up.

I'm rubbish at writing. Does that matter?

No. The few questions at signup are the only writing you ever do, and they're the questions you'd answer down the pub. How you talk, who your customers are, what you'd never say. Robin builds your Brand Kit from those answers and every draft comes back sounding like that.

Do I need to take better photos?

Phone photos are fine. Robin turns the photo the right way up, lifts the contrast and sharpens it a touch on the way in, and it keeps the picture you sent so nothing of yours is lost. There's no AI upscaling and your framing is left alone, apart from the crop Instagram's own aspect limits force at posting time, so a clean, well-lit shot of the finished job still beats a clever one. The Managed tier includes a quarterly proper photoshoot if you want a baseline of high-end work to lean on.

What about the regulations?

Robin's trades layer is reg-aware. It won't make efficacy claims, won't promise outcomes, and uses qualified language where the work involves a notifiable circuit or a Gas Safe job. We update the layer when the regs change. If you've got specific accreditations (Part P, NICEIC, MCS, Gas Safe, FENSA), put them in the "Anything on right now?" box on your settings page, because Robin reads that note before every post it writes and it will only name a registration you have given it.

What if a customer's in the photo?

Only send photos you have permission to post, because Robin has no consent step yet and it will treat anything you send as fair game. Robin's trades layer is told never to name a customer or a property that wasn't given to it, and you see every draft before it goes out on Co-pilot. A photo-by-photo consent prompt is on the list, and until it ships the judgement is yours.

I work alone. Will the Managed tier be worth it?

For most one-van outfits, Solo is the right call, and it's the only plan you can sign up for on your own. Managed makes sense once you've got two or more vans, a steady job pipeline, and you'd rather pay someone to run the marketing than think about it. We'll tell you on the call if Managed isn't the right fit yet, and recommend Solo.

Can I see who's looking at my posts?

Not yet, and we'd rather say so than show you a made-up number. The dashboard lists what published, on which channel, with the exact wording that went out, and it flags anything that failed. Reach and engagement figures come from the platforms and Robin doesn't pull them in yet, so that panel stays honestly empty until it does.

What happens after the 7-day trial?

If you don't add a card, Robin stops drafting and the account sits there paused. Your Brand Kit and photo pool stay put, so nothing is lost while you think about it. No auto-billing surprises. If you want to keep going, add a card and the next Sunday-night draft kicks off as normal.

Send a job photo. See what Robin makes of it.

The 7-day trial connects your accounts, ingests your brand, and drafts a sample week. If you don't like it, walk away.

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